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 THE CARDINALS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev Fr Utazi Prince Marie Benignus Zereuwa utaziprince@yahoo.com June 1 2022 EPILOGUE Cardinals are the top clerics of the Roman Catholic Church, also called its Princes. The word is derived from its Latin root cardo (hinge); cardinals are thus considered the hinges on which the Church revolves. They are appointed for life and belong to three orders  the highest being cardinal bishops, then cardinals priests, and finally cardinal deacons. Of the three, cardinal priests are the most numerous. Together, the orders form what is called the Sacred College of Cardinals, which currently has 229 members. Cardinals receive the symbolic red biretta and ring from the Pope when they are created at consistories, and are addressed as Eminence. The prelates are also known for their distinctive red attire  the colour expressing the willingness of the Cardinal to die for their faith, and the ring signifies their marriage to the church. The election of...

 LITTLE SUMMARY OF THE CARDINALS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Fr. Utazi Prince Marie Benignus Zereuwa utaziprince@yahoo.com Cardinals are the top clerics of the Roman Catholic Church, also called its Princes. The word is derived from its Latin root cardo (hinge); cardinals are thus considered the hinges on which the Church revolves. They are appointed for life and belong to three orders  the highest being cardinal bishops, then cardinals priests, and finally cardinal deacons. Of the three, cardinal priests are the most numerous. Together, the orders form what is called the Sacred College of Cardinals, which currently has 229 members. All three ranks within the College of Cardinals have ancient historical roots. Cardinal Deacons were anciently entrusted with the administration of the six offices of the Lateran Palace and of the seven departments of Rome, including care for poor. After Pope Sixtus V, they became 14, two for departments, and were given a deaconry of administration...

 SINGLE AND MARRIED DEACONS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev Fr. Utazi Prince Marie Benignus Zereuwa June 22 2022 Feast of Saint Paulinus of Nola INTRODUCTION Married men have been admitted to the clerical state of the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council in the form of permanent deacons. These men receive the same sacrament of orders that priests and bishops receive, and are thus considered clerics. They just do so without the obligation of celibacy that priests and bishops have been held to, beginning with the Gregorian reforms of the 11th century. Since 1968, when the bishops of the United States petitioned the Holy See for authorization to restore the permanent diaconate in their dioceses, their local churches have been strengthened and enriched by the many devout and competent men who have responded to this unique call (Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Clergy bulletin). Today, across Europe and America, and some parts of Asia and Africa continents, p...

 ORDINARY TIME OF THE YEAR Rev Fr Utazi Prince Marie Benignus Zereuwa June 4 2022 INTRODUCTION Because the term ordinary in English most often means something that is not special or distinctive, many people think that Ordinary Time in the liturgical timing of the Catholic Church refers to parts of the calendar of the Catholic Church that are unimportant. Even though the season of Ordinary Time makes up most of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church, the fact that Ordinary Time refers to those periods that fall outside of the major liturgical seasons reinforces this impression. Yet Ordinary Time is far from unimportant or uninteresting. WHAT IS ORDINARY TIME CALLED ORDINARY? Christmas Time and Easter Time highlight the central mysteries of the Paschal Mystery, namely, the incarnation, death on the cross, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Sundays and weeks of Ordinary Time, on the other hand, take us through the life...